Gauri Gill

Gauri Gill’s work emphasises her belief in working with and through community, in what she calls “active listening”. For more than two decades, she has been engaged with marginalised communities in the desert of western Rajasthan, and for the past decade also with indigenous artists in Maharashtra.Gill studied at Delhi College of Art; Parsons School of Design, New York; and Stanford University, California.Her work has been shown internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010), The Wiener Holocaust Library, London (2014); San José Museum of Art, California (2015); and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India (2016). In 2017, Gill’s work was exhibited at Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; the 7th Moscow Biennale; Prospect 4, New Orleans; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. It has been shown at Museum Tinguely, Basel (2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2018); the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2019); Chobi Mela, Dhaka (2019); and BAMPFA, Berkeley, California (2020).Gill’s first major survey exhibition opened at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, in 2022, moving to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, in January 2023.
She also exhibits at locations outside the art world, including public libraries, rural schools and non-profit institutions. Her work is held by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Smithsonian Institution, Washington; and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Her awards include the Grange Prize, awarded by the Art Gallery of Ontario (2011), and an India Today Art Award in 2018. She has been a Creative Arts Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2013), and was the inaugural Roberta Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford (2022). Gill has recently published two books with Edition Patrick Frey about her collaborations with rural artists, Acts of Appearance (2022) and Fields of Sight (2023). Gill was awarded the Prix Pictet in 2023 for her series Notes from the Desert.